Ad Image

Data Management News for the Week of September 13; Updates from Alation, Informatica, Qumulo & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of September 13, 2024.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

Top Data Management News for the Week Ending September 13, 2024

Alation Partners with Salesforce

The partnership allows organizations to extend their Alation investment across the Salesforce ecosystem, ensuring data integrity and reliability. Essential metadata—such as tags, governance policies, and data quality indicators—from 100+ data sources can be directly viewed in Data Cloud, providing a unified 360-degree view of data governance, usage, and compliance.

Read on for more

Astronomer Enables Full-Stack Data Orchestration with Astro Observe

Astro Observe introduces data observability as an additional capability of our platform. Central to Astronomer’s data observability capabilities is the use of OpenLineage as the framework to make data pipelines observable by automatically collecting and correlating detailed information about their behavior and data movement.

Read on for more

Denodo Announces New University Challenge

The Denodo Academic Program prepares students through virtual, self-paced training modules, live workshops, and test drives of the Denodo Platform. The Denodo Academic Program launched its first University Challenge in 2023, dedicated to improving the air quality in Europe.

Read on for more

Glean Raises $260 Million in Venture Capital Funding

The company also announced new features that allow users to create “multi-step” prompts using natural language to remove the necessity for coding skills or prompt engineering. Co-founder and CEO Arvind Jain, who also co-founded data management startup Rubrik, said in February the company plans to increase hiring.

Read on for more

Immuta and Concord Announce New Data Security Risk Assessment Tool

Using the new data security risk assessment and integrating Immuta’s Data Security Platform capabilities, organizations can scale their data security measures to keep pace with growing data volumes, streamline compliance processes, and maintain a robust security posture across diverse environments.

Read on for more

Informatica Releases Blueprint for OCI GenAI

Delivered by Informatica cloud consultants, this latest solution blueprint provides customers with a template for an end-to-end data platform with no-code or low-code retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chain orchestration for LLMs.

Read on for more

Normalyze Selected for AWS GenAI Accelerator

This opportunity will support Normalyze’s efforts to enhance its AI-driven data security capabilities, enabling organizations to discover, classify, and protect their valuable and sensitive data across cloud environments more effectively.

Read on for more

Oracle Partners with Google Cloud on Unified Database & AI, Announces New HeatWave Features

With Oracle Database@Google Cloud, customers will for the first time get direct access to Oracle Database services running on OCI and deployed in Google Cloud datacenters. They can now take advantage of Oracle’s industry-leading database and Exadata technology to accelerate innovation and develop new applications.

Read on for more

Privacera is Open-Sourcing its GenAI Governance Offering

The company has also announced two updates for PAIG. The first, in April, was new access control and fine-grained data filtering functionality for Vector BD/RAG. The second, in July, was a private preview of Posture Manager. Since then, there has been no announcement of when Posture Manager will be generally available in PAIG.

Read on for more

Qumulo Releases Cloud Native Qumulo on AWS

This release delivers an enterprise-proven, multi-protocol system designed to manage unstructured data with superior performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency. Now publicly available on AWS, CNQ is set to revolutionize enterprise data management by meeting the rigorous demands of high-performance workloads with a cloud-native approach.

Read on for more

Redpanda Unveils New AI Integrations

This launch also unveiled the vision for a single unified engine called Redpanda R1, a multimodal streaming engine with flexible topics that can meet the diverse latency, storage, durability, and security access requirements of today’s streaming data applications.

Read on for more

Reltio Releases New Data Pipeline for Databricks

The Reltio Data Pipeline for Databricks pushes real-time, insight-ready data from Reltio’s offerings—Reltio Customer 360 Data Product, Reltio Multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) and Reltio Entity Resolution—to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Read on for more

Riverbed Survey Uncovers Data & Readiness Gaps When it Comes to AI

Despite high optimism, the report reveals this reality—while 94% of those surveyed say AI is a top C-Suite priority and 91 percent agree it provides a competitive advantage, only 37 percent are fully prepared to implement AI projects now, as organizations address challenges ranging from data quality to scalability that are impacting their ability to realize the full benefits of AI.

Read on for more

Solidatus Selected as Microsoft Purview Data Governance Partner

Solidatus’ fine-grain data lineage and best in class visualizations, including the two-way integration into Microsoft Purview, is available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace to coincide with the general availability date for Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Microsoft Fabric.

Read on for more

StreamNative Announces Two Product Launches and Partner Program

StreamNative Serverless utilizes Apache Pulsar as its underlying architecture. Apache Pulsar is designed with features that support multi-tenancy and scalability, which differentiates it from some other data streaming serverless products. Serverless features include autoscaling based on workloads, elastic consumption-based pricing, and a new user interface with enhanced navigation.

Read on for more

Syncari Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

With Syncari ADM now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, organizations can easily subscribe and start modernizing their data management practices to achieve key business goals. Offering advanced features like Augmented MDM, Adaptive MDM, and Composable Architecture Support, Syncari ADM simplifies data governance and makes data more accessible across various domains.

Read on for more

Tessell Unveils New DBaaS For Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Tessell’s global partnership and support for OCI enables industry-leading databases, cloud data management, integration, and governance for databases, data warehouses, data lakehouses, enterprise analytics, and data science. For Tessell’s joint customers, this new offering and partnership facilitates data modernization by moving on-premises workloads to OCI.

Read on for more

Unsupervised Signs New AI Data Analyst Agreement with AT&T

As part of this new agreement, AT&T plans to use Unsupervised’s AI Data Analysts in a wider capacity over the next year to analyze a variety of internal data sources to provide natural language query answers, AI-generated insights, and predictions to AT&T employees. Unsupervised’s cutting-edge AI technology automates complex data analysis—traversing vast datasets to uncover valuable patterns and communicate key findings.

Read on for more

Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Expert Insights by Bob Seiner: What Data Do We Have?

By knowing exactly what data is available, where it is stored, and how it is used, companies can more effectively manage and utilize their data, turning it into a valuable asset rather than a potential liability.

Read on Solutions Review

Expert Insights by Dr. Joe Perez: Visionary Realism and the Art of Blending Innovation and Practicality

In the early 1900s, a young American agronomist named Norman Borlaug set out on a mission that would transform global agriculture forever. Born in 1914 in Cresco, Iowa, Borlaug experienced the harsh realities of the Great Depression, which instilled in him a deep concern for food shortages. This early exposure ignited a lifelong dedication to combating hunger and enhancing agricultural efficiency.

Read on Solutions Review

Expert Insights by Robert Eve: Why AI Needs Good Semantics & What to Do About It

How often have you heard someone exasperatingly state, “That’s just semantics,” when claiming that one word is just a synonym for another? That’s a reasonable statement in light conversation, but a misinformed one in today’s complex data management landscape.

Read on Solutions Review

The Jam Session (September): Why Now is the Time to Move to Data-Centric AI

This month on The Jam Session, host Bob Eve brings on data pros Michael Magalsky, Guy Adams, and David Sweenor to explore the shift towards data-centric AI and its importance in today’s business landscape.

Watch on YouTube

For consideration in future data management news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.


Widget not in any sidebars

Share This

Related Posts